Why do Pandora jewelry darken, How to care, How to protect?

Con­tent:

1. Rea­sons for dark­en­ing Pan­do­ra jew­el­ry
2. Car­ing for Pan­do­ra Jew­el­ry
3. Sil­ver clean­ing at home
4. How to pro­tect and pro­tect Pan­do­ra jew­el­ry from dark­en­ing, Con­clu­sions

Reasons for darkening Pandora jewelry

Care­ful care of sil­ver jew­el­ry can sig­nif­i­cant­ly extend their “life” and orig­i­nal appear­ance. The appear­ance of acces­sories direct­ly depends on the con­di­tions of their stor­age. Sil­ver tends to oxi­dize, this process is affect­ed by peri­od­ic mois­ture: sweat, per­fume, water, etc. This phe­nom­e­non is explained by a nat­ur­al chem­i­cal reac­tion to some com­po­nents in the alloy. This is a nat­ur­al prop­er­ty of sil­ver, which only con­firms that your prod­uct is real­ly made of sil­ver. Don’t wor­ry — the top tar­nished lay­er of sil­ver jew­el­ry is per­fect­ly clean­able.

At the same time, we have many clients who nev­er take off the bracelet at all, they wear it for half a year. At the same time, they go to work, trav­el in trans­port, fly planes to resorts, swim in the seas and pools, train in gyms. Feed­back from them is only pos­i­tive, no one noticed any dark­en­ing. But here, most like­ly, clean­ing occurs on its own due to con­stant use — jew­el­ry rubs against clothes.

Accord­ing to our per­son­al obser­va­tions, jew­el­ry can dark­en if it is rarely worn and improp­er­ly stored. We repeat: there is noth­ing wrong with this, it is all very easy to clean. How to do it cor­rect­ly, read below in the text.

There is also a rumor that the orig­i­nal does not dark­en. You can ask the sell­ers or read on the offi­cial sites of Pandora.net, they write the same thing there. This is not a prod­uct defect, it is not caused by a vio­la­tion of the tech­no­log­i­cal process or the use of low-qual­i­ty mate­ri­als. This is the nat­ur­al process of using sil­ver. Sil­ver jew­el­ry that has gone through the tar­nish­ing process and is used fre­quent­ly takes on a unique vin­tage look. Those parts that rub against clothes shine, and the con­cave parts dark­en and are cov­ered with a mesh. Such prod­ucts have a very noble appear­ance. They can be con­fused with old Venet­ian jew­el­ry.

Caring for Pandora Jewelry

The nat­ur­al dark­en­ing of sil­ver can be avoid­ed by fol­low­ing a few spe­cif­ic rules.
Sim­ple care tips include extend­ing the life of a sil­ver acces­so­ry and pre­serv­ing its orig­i­nal appear­ance:

• remove jew­el­ry before tak­ing a bath or show­er;
• chlo­ri­nat­ed water has a bad effect on sil­ver, so you should not wear a sil­ver bracelet to spa treat­ments or to the pool;
• The pol­lu­tion of the bracelet comes from the ingress of lotions, emul­sions, per­fumes, cos­met­ics, sim­ple dust on it.
• in order to avoid the reac­tion of sil­ver and house­hold chem­i­cals, before clean­ing and wash­ing dish­es, remove the acces­so­ry;
• sig­nif­i­cant­ly reduce the num­ber of scratch­es and scuffs on sil­ver and gold items by stor­ing them in a soft bag or case;
• sil­ver bracelets tend to stretch, so we do not rec­om­mend wear­ing more than 9 charms.

Silver cleaning at home

When black­en­ing a bracelet or charm or oth­er sil­ver item, you can use sev­er­al clean­ing meth­ods at home:

1. The eas­i­est and most effec­tive way is to wipe with a spe­cial clean­ing cloth. If you don’t have a pol­ish­ing pad, you can use a paper or suede eye­glass cloth at home.
   
2. If the nap­kin did not help, dis­solve ordi­nary soap in water or take liq­uid soap, place a sil­ver jew­el­ry in it for 10 min­utes. Then, using a very soft brush, clean the prod­uct. Wipe the acces­so­ry after the pro­ce­dure with a soft nat­ur­al flan­nel cloth.
   
3. To effec­tive­ly whiten sil­ver, use a tooth­paste that does not con­tain abra­sive addi­tives, so you get rid of dirt on the prod­uct with­out dam­ag­ing the met­al, giv­ing it shine and lux­u­ry. Pick up a brush with soft, del­i­cate bris­tles, apply the paste on the brush and rub the item with gen­tle, cleans­ing move­ments. After this pro­ce­dure, you need to rinse the jew­el­ry in warm water and wipe it dry thor­ough­ly.
   
4. Offi­cial Pan­do­ra stores sell spe­cial clean­ing kits for sil­ver. This set con­sists of a brush, a cloth and a con­tain­er with a spe­cial liq­uid for clean­ing sil­ver. Such a set very often gets into pro­mo­tions and can be pur­chased inex­pen­sive­ly. To clean, you just need to low­er the jew­el­ry into a con­tain­er for 5 min­utes, remove it, clean it with a brush, then wipe it with a nap­kin.
   
5. And the last option is to con­tact the jew­el­ry work­shop to clean your most beloved jew­el­ry. In a jew­el­ry work­shop, you can be sure that your prod­uct will be brought to a new con­di­tion. The jew­el­er will clean and in a spe­cial liq­uid for sil­ver and apply a brush and use a spe­cial ultra­son­ic bath to clean sil­ver. It will also sand worn and scratched parts on a grind­ing machine.

How to protect and protect Pandora jewelry from darkening, Conclusions

All rec­om­men­da­tions have already been made. We just draw con­clu­sions from the above:

• Any sil­ver prod­ucts dark­en, this is a nat­ur­al and nat­ur­al reac­tion of sil­ver to air.
• The dark­en­ing of sil­ver prod­ucts is not con­sid­ered a mar­riage or man­u­fac­tur­ing defect.
• The dark­en­ing of sil­ver prod­ucts is very eas­i­ly elim­i­nat­ed at home.
• You can pro­tect your­self from pre­ma­ture dark­en­ing by prop­er­ly stor­ing jew­el­ry in bags or box­es, with­out access to mois­ture and damp­ness, and also do not bathe or wet your prod­ucts.
• You can clean the prod­ucts with soapy water, nap­kins and brush­es with paste. And also with the help of a spe­cial clean­ing kit from Pan­do­ra or by con­tact­ing a jew­el­ry work­shop.